Hard-right Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson,
bipartisan uniter?
The 30-second spot, which is airing in the Greenville, S.C., market, features Mr. Carson, in a suit, standing next to an empty cardboard box that says “Washington political class” on one side and a sketch of the Capitol on another.
“I’m Ben Carson and I’m running for president,” he says. “The political class and their pundit buddies say: ‘Impossible. He’s too outside the box.’ Well, they do know impossible. Impossible to balance the budget, impossible to get border security, impossible to put aside partisanship.”
Let's set aside Dr. Ben Carson's extremely dubious claims that he will both balance the budget and implement ironclad border security, two tasks that have eluded his party for decades. Dr. Ben Carson is the man to
put aside partisanship? This is the man whose claim to front-tier political fame was yelling at Obama at a prayer breakfast about how to Jesus properly. He's the candidate of a Republican tea party contingent that considers working with Democrats to be, for the politicians they support, the only truly unforgivable political sin. Make no mistake, if Dr. Ben Carson so much as took a sideways half-step towards
putting aside partisanship, his base would flee from him like he was made of leprosy and bees.
No, what we seem to have here is one of those special Ben Carson definitions that nobody else is privy to. President Ben Carson will be a bipartisan uniter of America in the sense that if you disagree with him, he'll send federal investigators to come remove you from your job. That'll be pretty uniting, right?